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If you recognize the word ‘DROKK‘, then you’re already halfway to understanding what this post might be about. For those that don’t, it’s a made up, sci-fi expletive along the lines of BSG’s ‘Frak’ or Red Dwarf’s ‘Smeg’. It’s found in the Earth’s future Mega-Cities, often spoken by perps when they’re apprehended by the mighty Judge Dredd from the 2000AD comic book universe.

In this instance it’s the name of the soundtrack collaboration between Geoff Barrow (of Portishead fame) and composer Ben Salisbury. Except that it’s not actually a soundtrack. If, like me, you’re a fan of Joe Dredd, you’ll know that there’s a movie coming out later this year starring Karl ‘Bones McCoy’ Urban as the be-chinned anti-hero of Mega City One, and back in the early stages of the production Barrow and Salisbury were approached to score the film. They started work on a heavily synthesizer-based score, drawing on Barrow’s love of the comics and Salisbury’s knowledge of putting music to film. Then, for reasons that Barrow doesn’t want to go in to at the moment as the movie is still in production, their score was dropped from the film. (He goes to great lengths in this interview with The Skinny to be clear that there are no hard feelings about it, and is still very excited about the film). Undeterred by this, the pair got the blessing of 2000AD to continue their work and have now released “DROKK: Music Inspired By Mega-City One“, a 19-track, dark, moody and electronic tribute to the future dystopia.Continue Reading “DROKK – A Soundtrack to a Film That Doesn’t Exist (But Actually it Does)” »